Music for Sunday September 13th

The King of Love my Shepherd is!

Sunday was the first day of our sermon series on the 23rd Psalm, really looking forward to digging a little bit more into this Psalm. Each week we are trying to find a song to use that uses some of the words or themes from the 23rd Psalm. If you have any suggestions please let me know!

At 10:00- It was also Rally Day (1st day of Sunday School)- LOTS of kids! Yay! I chose music that I thought the kids would enjoy and sing easily.

pre-service
Awesome is the Lord Most High -in E!- brand new song for us, sung by awesome singer Phil, it went well.
Days of Elijah- one of the kids favorites

Call to Worship
Open the Eyes of My Heart
Holy Holy Holy- the hymn. This hymn is part of the hymn of the month program that I have devoloped to help the kids who go to primarily services with more contemporary music, become more familiar with hymn from years past.

offering
Psalm 23 by Stuart Townend- I found this song written in 1996, doing a theme search on http://www.ccli.com/. Very nice, simple, and sweet. Worked perfectly with the theme, and even had a pretty descant written into the song. I think I'll use this one again during this series. Scott and Phil rocked the harmonies!

Closing
My Savior My God- Aaron Shust

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Additional worship notes: I played the organ for the traditional service Sunday, the closing hymn
was one of my favorites, and a sending blessing:

Go my children with my blessing, never alone.

Waking sleeping I am with you; You are my own.

In my love's baptismal river I have made you mine forever,

Go my children, with my blessing- You are my own.

Go my children, sins forgiven, at peace and pure

Here you learned

how much I love you, what i can cure

Here you heard My dear son's story, here you touched Him, saw His glory

Go My Children sins forgiven at peace and pure

Go my children fed and nourished, closer to Me;

Grow in love and love by serving, Joyful and free,
Here my Spirit's power filled you; here His tender comfort stilled you.

Go my children, fed and nourished, Joyful and free.

I the Lord will bless and keep you, and give you peace;

I the Lord will smile upon you and give you peace

I the Lord will be your Father, Savior, Comforter and Brother,

Go My Children I will keep you, and give you peace

text: Jaroslav J Vajda (1983 Concordia Publishing House)

tune: Welsh 18th century

This post is part of the blog carnival at Fred McKinnon's blog. There you can read about the Sunday worship music choices from churches all around the world! Check it out right here